Browsing Tag Portlandia

We've got a long wait until Portlandia returns for season three in January, but in the meantime we can look forward to the hour-long Brunch Special, airing Friday, July 20 at 11 pm ET. The special consists of a director's cut of “Brunch Village,” the season two finale, as...

Portlandia and Saturday Night Live's Fred Armisen needs your help with a project. First thing you're going to need to do is wipe the smile off of your face and be serious for 30 seconds.
Fred calls for user-submitted videos for his Be Serious For 30 Seconds project, and lays...

Hey, remember last week when The Simpsons creator Matt Groening mentioned Portland in that cool Smithsonian magazine interview and everyone lost their minds, claiming that he revealed the true location of the show's Springfield? Yeah, well gather your minds. That's not really...

We kind of already knew Portlandia was coming back to IFC for a third season, since Carrie Brownstein let it slip during an interview on an Australian radio station last week. But tonight, it became official in New York, as the network confirmed the news at their upfront...

In an interview today with Australian radio show The Doctor hosted by Lindsay McDougall on the Triple J radio station, Carrie Brownstein confirmed that IFC has picked up Portlandia for a third season. As she's currently on tour with her band Wild Flag, filming has not yet begun,...

You may remember Portlandia's current season premiere, which featured the sketch "Around the World in 80 Plates," wherein comedian Kumail Nanjiani played a persistent waiter at an obnoxiously eccentric casual eatery. If don't remember or haven't seen it, you must check it out...

America’s favorite ultra-hipster homage to Portland, Portlandia, has inspired some of the best, weirdest lines in recent memory, from “Shell art is OVER!” to “Put a bird on it!” And I’d be lying if I said I didn’t annoy my friends by asking, “Did you read? Did...

One of my favorite Internet time-wasters is Reddit’s "Ask Me Anything" feature. The format is simple: users submit questions to an individual with some remarkable or interesting characteristic. And sometimes, even celebrities get involved and offer a few moments of their time...

All hail the return of the non-hipster-bashing Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein, satirists of the twee and zeitgeist-y IRL and artisanal picklers, IPL who yes, can pickle that. Jewel cases, parking tickets, broken off heels: all pickleable. Let’s go have a cocktail.
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